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SC 9.2-Mason-Dixon Lines 5/27/03 1:29 PM Page 82 Mason-Dixon Lines 82 SC 9.2-Mason-Dixon Lines 5/27/03 1:29 PM Page 83 Small-town station, morning show, still doing a gospel number every hour. Who’s listening? Bacon tenders, baby sitters. He yucks it up for the insurance office crew, the stop-in, mini-mart gas shacks. He’s on the counter at The Hub, talking coffee cups up and down. A clown, a daily goofball, regular as sun-up and death, he reads the obits from the local paper and sometimes adds a personal note. Even the disembodied here have an anecdote. Dashboard and countertop, new tunes and same old same old, beer on sale, car tires, paint, link sausage, the grind and groove of tune. We’re coming up on noon. Outside, in the parking lot, sparrows bathe in the dust. Empires rise and fall. He’ll notice and say nothing of it on the air. To celebrate the release of our poetry editor Michael Chitwood’s new book, Gospel Road Going, the editors requested a poem from that work, which appears here courtesy of Tryon Publishing Com- pany. His new collection of poems also contains “ The Great Wagon Road
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 30, 2003
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